Autonomy: the 'no' front works on the double question in the regions
The Campania regional council approved the referendum question proposing the total repeal of the Calderoli reform. And then a second question that goes on to selectively affect some of the regulation's contents and the LEPs (the essential performance levels). Texts on which the other four regions governed by the centre-left should converge: Emilia-Romagna, whose assembly is convened for the next few hours, and then Sardinia, Puglia and Tuscany.
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The path of the five progressive-led regions for the abrogative referendum on the differentiated autonomy starts from Campania. Yesterday, the regional council approved the call for a referendum, with a text on which the Emilia-Romagna, whose assembly is convened for the next few hours, and then Sardinia, Puglia and Tuscany should now converge. It is a process that runs parallel to that of the 500,000 popular signatures to be collected by September. But on the opposition's way there is not only the hurdle of the quorum, but also that of the admissibility of the referendum itself.
For this reason, the Campania regional council approved (with the votes of the centre-left groups, including the M5s, and the representative of Azione, which, on the other hand, dissociated itself from the referendum campaign at national level with Calenda) firstly the referendum question proposing the total abrogation of the Calderoli reform. And then a second question that is going to selectively affect certain contents of the law and the LEP (the essential levels of performance), so as to shelter the referendum from a possible judgement of inadmissibility of the total abrogation, a hypothesis linked to the links between the Calderoli bill and the budget law.
Apulian governor Michele Emiliano meanwhile reiterated that differentiated autonomy 'as Calderoli has defined it is a war of all against all'. But the president of the Calabria Region, the Forza Forza Italia Roberto Occhiuto, also returned to express concerns during the party's national council meeting. "My hope," he said, "is that Forza Italia will not vote, in the Council of Ministers and in Parliament, for any agreement with individual regions if the Essential Levels of Performance are not fully financed first, and if there is no mathematical certainty that certain agreements can produce damage to the South. Fears to which Secretary Antonio Tajani responds by reinforcing the proposal of the Observatory on differentiated autonomy: "It will not be a study group but a political structure that will have to make political evaluations and possible initiatives if there are distortions in the application of the reform".
